On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 07:34:48AM +0000, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 09:29:55AM +0200, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > > This is really a question about what the "N" command should be doing if > > there is no further input. GNU sed seems to output the current pattern > > space. > > > > POSIX says: > > > > If no next line of input is available, the N command verb shall > > branch to the end of the script and quit without starting a new > > cycle or copying the pattern space to standard output. > > > > > > Note: "without [...] copying the pattern space to standard output" > > > > So this makes me believe that OpenBSD sed is doing the correct thing > > with regards to the POSIX spec. for sed.
Indeed, this matches the OpenBSD behaviour. Thank you. -- db
